When we died, no one would know, and that fraction of a moment that was so important to who we were would be gone.
Kiera CassCould it be that simple? Tell one story to one generation and repeat it until it was accepted as fact?
Kiera CassThe facts are always frightening, and in all of us fear of the facts is constantly at work, constantly being fuelled; but this morbid fear must not lead us to conceal the facts and so to falsify the whole of human history -- which is of course part of natural history -- and pass it on in falsified form just because it is customary to do so, when we know that all history is falsified and always transmitted in falsified form.
Thomas BernhardHe used to say that he never felt the hardness of the human struggle or the sadness of history as he felt it among those ruins. He used to say, too, that it made one feel an obligation to do one's best.
Willa CatherTag: history sadness struggle obligation ruins
Alp Arslan: "What would you do if I was brought before you as a prisoner?"
Romanos: "Perhaps I'd kill you, or exhibit you in the streets of Constantinople."
Alp Arslan: "My punishment is far heavier. I forgive you, and set you free.
Those who don’t know history may be bound to repeat it. But even people who know it may follow the same fate if they interpret it exclusively in their own favor.
Yanko TsvetkovTag: history
History is a strange creature. It has the amazing ability to blind us with our own reflection when we peek over its deep mysterious waters. Many of us drown in it just like the mythological Narcissus, whose infatuation with his own beauty was stronger than his survival instincts.
Yanko TsvetkovTag: history
When ready to settle down: women are more interested in where the man is going; men are more interested in where the woman has been.
Mokokoma MokhonoanaTag: past history marriage dating relationship
Living in the past, can only hold those who live there, as its prisoners.
Ellen J. BarrierTag: past history time prisoners
The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.
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